Visit the Map Room in Manhattan's Municipal Building
Explore rare maps of NYC housed in the Map Room of Manhattan's Municipal Building with Manhattan's official topographer, Hector Rivera!
Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
Today at noon, join us as we explore the surprising and lightly visited North Woods of Central Park on a
A “ribbon bridge” across the East River that will be for bikers and pedestrians only? That’s what’s being
Frederick Law Olmsted is considered by many as the “father of American landscape architecture,” co-designing many famous urban parks with
Setauket, in Suffolk County, is a quaint village on Long Island dotted with numerous historic sites dating back to the
US Post Office Great Neck, a region on the North Shore of Nassau County that encompasses nine villages, is one
Set amongst rolling, grassy hills on the western shore of Lake Champlain in upstate New York sit the ruins of
In spite of its reputation as a concrete jungle, New York City is home to a great many parks. Many
Acre for acre there is more history in the Financial District than anywhere else in the country and most of
In the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens is a suburban enclave called Addisleigh Park, a historically African-American and Caribbean neighborhood
The summer will be unlike most others we have lived through. Travel abroad will be challenging, and even domestically some
At 5224 Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush sits one of the Brooklyn homes of baseball great Jackie Robinson. The house
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Naval Cemetery Landscape (NCL), a 1.7-acre memorial landscape on the edge of the
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